This document provides information about educational DVD resources from Pumpkin Interactive for drama teaching and performance. It describes DVDs on various drama techniques and practitioners such as Artaud, Grotowski, physical theatre, comedy, ensemble building, devising, and preparing for drama school auditions. Each DVD provides interviews, workshops and performances to illustrate the techniques. It includes an order form and contact information for Pumpkin Interactive.

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2. Of all the major twentieth century theatre
practitioners, Artaud and his “Theatre of
Cruelty”, is most likely to appeal to young
people, both as a catalyst and liberating force,
inspiring them to create their own high-scoring
devised work. Use this resource to help explore
Artaud’s ideas and find practical approaches
for examination courses. The 25-minute
biography and extensive library of over 100
Artaud inspired performance extracts provide a
wealth of material for discussion and potential
performance ideas and will help bridge the gap
between theory books and practice.
World famous theatre practitioner Jerzy
Grotowski has had an enormous and positive
influence on contemporary theatre. This
resource explores his life and work and shows
how his ideas and approaches can be used by
students and teachers to create powerful and
successful performances. Through the use
of archive performance footage, workshops,
demonstrations, interviews and examples of
Grotowski-inspired pieces, this double DVD
enables students to apply Grotowski’s visionary
insights to their own devised and scripted work.
Includes top-band student performances and
ready-to-use teaching materials.
Artaud: Practical
Approaches to
a Theatre of Cruelty
Grotowski:
A Practical Guide
“I have spent all day
with your Artaud DVD.
WOW!! You have done a
brilliant job at compiling
and skillfully weaving
all the bits together.”
Kym Martin, Head of Drama
and Follower of the IB Theatre
programme
Code: ARTAUD
Code: GRO
120 mins+ | 2010 | Age 14-19+
75 mins | 2015 | Age 14-19+
£75 £75
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SELLER NEW
“A really useful resource
with a range of excellent
materials and insights,
including international
contributions that will deepen
understanding of how to
teach Grotowski in schools
in practice and theory.”
Paul Allain, Professor of Theatre and
Performance, University of Kent
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3. Encourage students to develop and incorporate
physicality into their devised pieces, with
this double DVD that provides inspiring ideas
and strategies. Interviews, workshops, and
performances with leading international
physical theatre companies show them creating,
evaluating, planning, devising and discussing
their philosophy and practice. Multi-award
winning director and choreographer, Liam
Steel demonstrates how to develop movement
using props and soundscapes. Students
will be inspired by the section on Butoh that
provides clear explanations and context for
Butoh concepts of the 3D body, ways of moving,
metamorphosis and using time and space.
Creating Physical
Theatre
“An absolutely essential
purchase for any teacher of
dance, drama, performing
arts or physical theatre who
works with students from
GCSE age to adults.”
Review for Dance Matters,
Sue Cottam, Examiner,
Trinity Guildhall
Code: CPT 120 mins | 2006 | Age 14-19+
£75
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This double DVD provides strategies and ideas
for creating comedy for devised and scripted
performances. Using interviews, workshops and
performance footage from leading international
comedy practitioners, this resource will guide
students through the entire process, from the
initial stages of researching, exploring and
testing ideas through to rehearsal and final
performance. Specific comedy generating
strategies, like games and play, rhythm, timing
and surprises, crossed objectives, double acts,
major/minor and creating comedy characters are
all explained, with performed examples. Includes
top-band student performances and ready–to-
use teaching materials.
Creating Comedy:
Techniques and
Exercises
Code: COMEDY 120 mins | 2014 | Age 14-19+
£75
"Comedy can be particularly hard
to teach, even though for many
students it seems to be a go-to
genre. This DVD will help enforce
that there are rules that underpin
the work and hopefully point the
way for students to create more
quality performances as they come
to devise their examination pieces."
Phil King, Chair of NISDA and
Head of Drama, Bedales
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4. This double DVD set provides a wealth of
strategies and ideas to help create successful
ensembles, the essential basis for all
performance and team-based work. The
extensive footage of workshops, interviews and
comments from leading theatre practitioners
from around the world, will help students
overcome inhibitions, build trust and improve
their communication skills. The resource
provides examples of ideas, games, and
methods and a trouble-shooting guide that can
all be used to engage and develop students.
Ensemble Building
"I was looking around
for some recent,
relevant and racy
drama resources for
some stimulation.
Fortunately, I lit upon
these titles which ticked
all those boxes and
more besides.”
Review for NATE journal:
Classroom, by Lorna Smith,
Course Leader, PGCE, Bath
Spa University
Code: EB 100 mins | 2006 | Age 14-19+
£75
An invaluable guide to the process of creating an
original piece of drama. Leading international
practitioners discuss ways of getting started,
and introduce the strategies they use to generate
ideas, movement and text. With over 120 minutes
of edited interviews, demonstrations, rehearsal
footage and performance outcome clips from
some of the world’s most exciting and creative
performance companies, as well as extensive
teaching resources, this resource will provide
students with the ideas and understanding they
need to take their devised pieces to a new level.
Devising Work
“I have a sneaking
suspicion that more
feet will be beating a
path to the library in
search of these gems
than for most of the
other drama resources
on the reading list put
together."
Review for NATE journal:
Classroom, Lorna Smith,
Course Leader, PGCE, Bath
Spa University
Code: DV 120 mins | 2006 | Age 14-19+
£75
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5. So you want to go
to Drama School?
Drama schools get thousands of applications
each year from students wanting to become
actors, so how can you make an application
stand out? How can students be sure that the
course is really the right one for them? What
does the audition process involve and how can
they prepare for it most effectively? Through
interviews with experts at The Royal Central
School of Speech and Drama, The Liverpool
Institute for Performing Arts and the Institute
of the Arts, Barcelona, this double DVD gives
candidates the essential information they need
to avoid the pitfalls, to apply intelligently and to
maximize their chances of success in auditions.
Includes student accounts of the entire process
and mock-auditions with students and drama
school tutors.
Code: DS 110 mins | 2014 | Age 14-19+
£75
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This double DVD, created by internationally
acclaimed theatre company Spymonkey, gives a
fantastic insight into their unique and hilariously
inventive style of physical comedy. Using original
rehearsal footage and interviews, we follow
the creative process from first moments of
inception through rehearsal to performance
as the company turns Sophocles’ most famous
tragedy into a Bowie-esque space ballad. The
DVD also includes a live recording of Oedipussy
with commentary, as well as interviews with the
artistic directors as they explore the influences
on their work and the creative roles of director,
writer and designer.
Making Physical
Comedy Work
“I love Spymonkey for the
brilliance and precision of
their clowning and the ripple
of pure intelligence beneath
the anarchic surface...
Quite rare, quite wonderful,
not to be missed.”
“The Pumpkin
DVDs offer a great
selection of titles
that will definitely
be of interest to our
readership.”
Libby Purves, theatrecat.comRachel Creaser, Deputy
Editor, Teaching Drama
Code: SPY 100 mins+ | 2014 | Age 14-19+
£75
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